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Tim Birkle (Year 13, Upper Eighth) has been selected for the UK team in this year’s International Biology Olympiad, to be held in Aarhus, Denmark.

St Paul’s easily topped the medal table at this year’s National Schools’ Regatta, taking four gold, five silver and three bronze medals. The nearest competitor won eight. No other school has broken into double figures in recent history.

This is our best performance at the regatta and makes St Paul’s the pre-eminent UK school for rowing in 2014–15.

The athletics team put in the strongest collective performance to win the Lord Burghley Trophy, held at Eton last weekend. School records were broken and the juniors and intermediates won their age groups.

St Paul’s School Science Building picked up a 2015 RIBA London Award last month, in recognition for architectural excellence.

Team Proteus put on an impressive performance in the recent South London final and were commended by the judges.

Held the day before the real thing and powered by some highly organised party machines, our mock election saw a turnout just above the 66% achieved nationally. Over 60 candidates stood across nine constituencies.

Five of the 1st VIII represented Great Britain (as part of a sweep team of 14) at the International Junior Regatta at Munich last weekend.

Robbie Fraser (Year 12, Lower Eighth) was the winner of Oxford’s 2015 Classics and Ancient History essay competition, beating 57 other candidates.

Over the Easter holidays, Simran Mander (Year 12, Lower Eighth) toured Belgium and France with the USA U17 national rugby team.

The seniors won the Mike Diserens trophy for J18 VIIIs at this year’s Wallingford Regatta. In an event affected by poor weather, the 1st VIII beat a number of major competitors, including Abingdon, Hampton and Shrewsbury, to win their heat by over 8s. They were the fastest VIII of the day by nearly 5s.